United States Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications Colin Jareb , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow Kim M. Pepin , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal…United States Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications Colin Jareb , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow Kim M. Pepin , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow Ryan S. Miller , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow Stephanie A. Shwiff , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow Sophie C. McKee , United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado Follow ORCID IDs Jareb https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6859-3242 Miller https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3892-0251 McKee https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2283-4191 Document Type Article Date of this Version 2024 Citation MDPI Biology (2024) 13: 670 doi: 10.3390/biology13090670 Academic editors: Andrés Moya and Xubin Pan Abstract Wild pigs ( Sus scrofa ) are one of the most destructive invasive species in the United States, known for causing extensive damage to agricultural commodities, natural resources, and property, and for transmitting diseases to livestock. Following the establishment of the National Feral Swine Damage Management Program (NFSDMP) in 2014, the expansion of wild pig populations has been successfully slowed. This paper combines two modeling approaches across eight separate models to characterize the expansion of wild pig populations in the absence of intervention by the NFSDMP and forecasts the value of a subset of resources safeguarded from the threat of wild pigs. The results indicate that if wild pigs had continued spreading at pre-program levels, they would have spread extensively across the US, with significant geographic variation across modeling scenarios. Further, by averting the threat of wild pigs, a substantial amount of crops, land, property, and livestock was safeguarded by the NFSDMP. Cumulatively, between 2014 and 2021, wild pig populations were prevented from spreading to an average of 724 counties and an average of USD 40.2 billion in field crops, pasture, grasses, and hay was safeguarded. The results demonstrate that intervention by the NFSDMP has delivered significant ecological and economic benefits that were not previously known. DOWNLOADS Since November 23, 2024 Included in Natural Resources and Conservation Commons , Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons , Other Environmental Sciences Commons , Other Veterinary Medicine Commons , Population Biology Commons , Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons , Veterinary Infectious Diseases Commons , Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology Commons , Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health Commons , Zoology Commons COinS
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United States Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications Cole A. Bleke , Utah State University Follow Eric M. Gese , United States Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Utah Field Station, Logan, Utah Follow Juan…United States Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications Cole A. Bleke , Utah State University Follow Eric M. Gese , United States Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Utah Field Station, Logan, Utah Follow Juan J. Villalba , Utah State University Shane B. Roberts , Idaho Department of Fish and Game Susannah S. French , Utah State University Follow ORCID IDs Bleke https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1919-1559 Gese https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-7397 French https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-9728 Document Type Article Date of this Version 2024 Citation MDPI Animals (2024) 14: 1468 Abstract Monitoring vital rates allowsmanagers to estimate trends in growth rates of ungulate populations. However, connecting the influence of nutrition on ungulate demography is challenging. Noninvasive sampling offers a low-cost, low-effort alternative for measuring nutritional indices, allowing for an increased understanding of the mechanistic relationships between environmental factors, nutrition, and specific population vital rates. We examined the temporal influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana ) fawn recruitment. We collected fresh fecal samples from adult female pronghorn in five subpopulations spanning three sampling periods associated with critical maternal life-history stages (late gestation, early lactation, breeding season) for 2 years to investigate both intra- and interannual influences. Intrinsic factors were fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGMs), nutritional indices (fecal nitrogen (FN) and 2,6-diaminopimelic acid (DAPA)), and dietary composition (protein intake of forbs, graminoids, legumes, other, shrubs), while the extrinsic factor was vegetative greenness (normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)). We found variations in DAPA, protein intake of forbs, variation in forb protein intake, and protein intake of legumes during late gestation positively influenced fawn recruitment. Fecal nitrogen during early lactation showed the strongest positive influence on the recruitment of any measured parameter. Finally, breeding season NDVI and the variation in DAPA values positively influenced the subsequent year’s fawn recruitment. Our longitudinal study enabled us to investigate which parameter was most important to specific periods of fawn development and recruitment. We combined the results across five subpopulations, but interpretation and subsequent management decisions should be made at the subpopulation level such that pronghorn subpopulations with low recruitment can be positively influenced by increasing nitrogen on the landscape available to adult females during the early lactation period. As the use of noninvasive monitoring methods continues to expand, we believe our methodologies and results can be broadly applied to other ungulate monitoring programs. DOWNLOADS Since November 23, 2024 Included in Natural Resources and Conservation Commons , Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons , Other Environmental Sciences Commons , Other Veterinary Medicine Commons , Population Biology Commons , Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons , Veterinary Infectious Diseases Commons , Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology Commons , Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health Commons , Zoology Commons COinS
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Killgerm Group attended, sponsored and presented at the 11th International Conference on Urban Pests in Lund (Sweden), supporting and delivering original scientific research in the field of urban pest management.Killgerm and University of Reading PhD student Ana Carolina Yamakawa, supervised by Killgerm’s Dr Matthew Davies, presented cutting-edge scientific research on…Killgerm Group attended, sponsored and presented at the 11th International Conference on Urban Pests in Lund (Sweden), supporting and delivering original scientific research in the field of urban pest management.Killgerm and University of Reading PhD student Ana Carolina Yamakawa, supervised by Killgerm’s Dr Matthew Davies, presented cutting-edge scientific research on rodent pathogens.Dr Matthew Davies (Head of [...]
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